Environment Food and Rural Affairs written statement – made at on 21 November 2006.
Barry Gardiner
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs)
Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Forestry Commission's DEL will be increased by £2,541,000 from £82,288,000 to £84,829,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| Change | New DEL | £'000 | |||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| Resource DEL of which: | 2,541 | - | 83,156 | 2,653 | 85,809 |
| Administration budget* | - | - | - | - | - |
| Near-cash in RDEL | 2,541 | - | 61,500 | 2,653 | 64,153 |
| Capital** | - | - | 790 | -700 | 90 |
| Less Depreciation*** | - | - | -1,070 | - | -1,070 |
| Total | 2,541 | - | 82,876 | 1,953 | 84,829 |
| *The total of 'Administration budget' and 'Near-cash in Resource DEL' figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping. | |||||
| **Capital/ DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. | |||||
| ***Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting. | |||||
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from the take up of £1,427,000 end of year flexibility to meet costs associated with efficiency initiatives and the timing of VAT payments and also a transfer of £1,114,000 from Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to allow the Forestry Commission to administer the Farm Woodland Premium scheme. There is also increased expenditure for community woodlands of £800,000, offset by income received from Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
